Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:22:50 -0500
From: "Matt D." <afn02065-AT-afn.org>
Subject: M-I: Lenin's Cannibalism -- Sources?


Damn!  I mean syphilis.  The outre allegations are beginning to
fly fast and furious on our little list, aren't they?

Mark Jones wrote:

>You might say I contradict my own last posting, where I offered
>the entirely different scenario of Lenin surviving (Lenin died because
>he had syphilis, which he contracted because he was a great and
>passionate womaniser -- so that's the kind of thing the big wheel of
>history turns on, like it or not -- and before you disagree I should say
>that I know what I am talking about -- Lenin used to slip out of the
>Kremlin at nights when he first moved in there, in 1918, with only his
>bodyguard, Sergei Gerasimovich Uralov, and go scrounging around the
>lower depths of Moscow -- Lenin had sex with the women in just about
>every safe house he stayed in before the revolution -- yes, he had his
>little foibles, too. Lenin believed in free love especially with 
>working class women and why not?


Source! Source!  This reminds me of the "Abraham Lincoln was buried
alive" stories we used to tell each other in grade school.

-- Matt D.

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